The name Lara is originally a Russian short form of Larisa. It developed from the Greek name of a city, Larissa, which means ‘citadel’ and later became a first name for girls.
Lara is a female first name. In very rare cases it is also used for boys.
The name Lara isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Lara ranks 689. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 2 were named Lara. In the entire USA, approximately 25,269 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Lara. That is 0.01 % of all living Americans.
The name Lara is originally a Russian short form of Larisa. It developed from the Greek name of a city, Larissa, which means ‘citadel’ and later became a first name for girls.
Lara was introduced to... the English-speaking world through the novel 'Doctor Zhivago' (1957) and its film adaptation (1965). It was quite popular around 1970.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter L is a particularly popular initial letter for girls' names – 6.8% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for girls’ names are A and S.
With four letters, the name Lara is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that with 6.8% of all girls' names that begin with an L, this first letter is much more common than the other letters on average. If you are now wondering which girls' name with L is the most common... the answer is Linda.
If your name is Lara and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Lara, you can simply say:
Lion
Apple
Rocket
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Lara
Lara
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
L
A
R
A
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
L
A
R
A
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Lara sounds like this:
